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Were not making toys for you anymore! You're FIRED!!
Published: 5/86
Doug Moench story
Pat Broderick art
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Spooky Spooktown 64 Universal |
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Looking for a scary story?
Published: 8/76
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Booster Gold 14 Universal |
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I love this dark cover! A very tough issue to achieve 9.8!
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Amazing Spider-Man Parallel Lives nn |
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I originally purchased this in graded 9.8 form on eBay. I cracked it open and had Alex Saviuk sign it at the Tampa Bay Comic Con on 8/24/13!!
Published: 5/89
Gerry Conway story.
Bob Larkin cover.
Alex saving art.
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Starlog 156 Universal |
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Big, squarebound 14th Anniversary issue!!
The Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Dorn and Leslie Nielsen interviews alone were worth the time spent reading this copy.
Add in Starman, Back to the Future 3, Dick Tracy and Gremlins 2 articles and it was impossible to stop me!!!!!
Published: 7/90
David McDonnell, Bill Warren, Lynne Stephens,
Marc Shapiro, Tom Weaver & Will Murray text.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Philip Jose Farmer,
Joe Dante, Leslie Nielsen, Michael Dorn interviews.
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Starlog 155 Universal |
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Boy Howdy! This issue was packed to the brim with articles that I couldn't wait to read through!
An interview with Colm Meaney, who played Chief Miles O' Brien on ST:TNG was of particular interest to me, being such a huge fan of the show and that character.
I had watched both of the first 2 Back To The Future movies multiple times and loved them, so being able to read a huge article on the third movie was most welcome!
With Nancy Allen talking about her role on Robocop, Michael Ironsides speaking about Total Recall and even an interview with Philip Jose Farmer about Tarzan and Doc Savage, I was in Hog Heaven with this issue!!!!!
Published: 6/90
Marc Shapiro, Will Murray, Mike Clark,
Mark Phillips & Kim Howard Johnson text.
Philip Jose Farmer, Nancy Allen, Vic Perrin,
Michael Ironsides & Michelle Scarabelli interviews.
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Starlog 141 Universal |
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To be totally honest, I never did watch the movie Adventures of Baron Munchausen. But that didn't keep me from reading practically every word in this issue.
Articles on the upcoming Star Trek V movie, a Diana Muldar interview about being Dr. Pulaski on ST:TNG and Amanda Pays talking about the movie Leviathan were just a few reasons for me to pour throught this particular copy.
Published: 4/89
Marc Shapiro, Ian Spelling, Peter Bloch-Hansen,
Eric Niderost, Mark Altman & Bill Warren text.
Terry Gilliam, Daphne Zuniga, Wilford Brimley,
Amanda Pays & Nigel Kneale interviews.
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Starlog 153 Universal |
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Quantum Leap was a show that I would watch when it happened to be on, but I wouldn't call myself a huge fan of the show. I never saw all of the episodes, but probably about half of them.
The constant rehashing of travel in time, be someone else, do something important, get with the woman of that particular episode, repeat ad nauseum, just didn't completely garner all of my attention all of the time.
I would watch it when nothing else was on, and it was an ok show, just not entirely my cup of tea. In fact, my favorite parts of any given episode were the back and forth banter between Sam Beckett and Al.
But I was perfectly willing to read a big article on it in this issue, along with other great ones like the Alien Nation article, a show that I was so upset when it only lasted one season, and Batman, Star Trek and Beauty & The Beast articles, among others.
Published: 4/90
Marc Shapiro, Kyle Counts, Peter Bloch-Hansen,
Michael Wolff, Bill Warren & Ian Spelling text.
Ray Bradbury, Lee Meriwether, Scott Bakula,
Mala Powers, Bibi Besch & Edward Albert interviews.
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Starlog 128 Universal |
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I remember the show Beauty & The Beast. It was the first time I took notice of a particular actress named Linda Hamilton, who had played Sarah Conner in The Terminator and would later go on to be in the later movies of the series in one capacity or another.
Published: 3/88
Lee Goldgerg, Edward Gross, Bill Warren,
Howard Weinstein, Marc Shapiro & Steve Swires text.
Ron Perlman, Peter Weller, Alfred Bester, James Earl Jones & David Prowse interviews.
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Starlog 132 Universal |
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When the movie Willow came out in theaters, I was a ravenous Sci-Fi and Fantasy geek. I was reading and/or watching anything in the genres I could get my hands on!
So Willow fell right into that category very nicely. I loved the movie, which it turns out also happened to be my first introduction to two different actors.
Val Kilmer, who would go on to play movie role after movie role for decades afterward, including some rather unfortunate Batman movies.
And also Warwick Davis, the lead in the movie, who I would later find out had been the guy wearing the Wicket Ewok costume in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi! He would later go on to play the leprechaun in the leprechaun movies and even in the Harry Potter movies as the character named Griphook.
With articles on Beetlejuice, Robocop, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Roger Rabbit, this issue was packed with tons of stuff I was interested in reading about! It happens to be the 12th anniversary issue of the magazine as well.
What's really amazing is that this very copy was bought straight off the shelf in 1988 and read through by a 15 year old, then stored in a box and moved around multiple times from spot to spot and house to house.
The idea that after all of that, it could somehow receive a 9.8 grade would be laughable.... if it wasn't completely true!
Published: 7/88
Tom Weaver, Bill Warren, Tim Ferrante, Adam Pirani
Steve Swires, David McDonnell & Marc Shapiro text.
Janet Leigh, Alan Young, Les Tremayne,
Ron Howard, Colin Baker & Jeffrey Jones interviews.
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Spooky Spooktown 18 |
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Raindrops falling through my head...
Published: 11/66
I love this cover. There are a number of Harvey covers with rain or water affecting Casper or Spooky or the Ghostly Trio, but for some reason I just really like this one.
Being a rare 9.8 of this series doesn't hurt either.
Oak!
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Dazzler 34 |
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Come here guard! Let me give you a shiner!
Published: 10/84
Mike Carlin story
Geoff Isherwood & Vinxe Colletta art
Bill Sienkiewicz cover
This is technically the first Dazzler issue that I got signed. I took it along with #36 to the Tampa Bay Comic Con on August 24, 2013 and got Geoff Isherwood's rare sig on them.
Being a Sienkiewicz cover makes this one of my fave Dazzler covers. Having this signed now makes this the ONLY SS 9.8 copy in the world! OAK!!!
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She's in the sewers. Maybe the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will come help her out!
Published: 3/85
Linda Grant Story
John Byrne Cover
Geoff Isherwwod Art
Mike Gustovich Art
Joe Rubinstein Art
Petra Scotese Colourist
Diana Albers Letterer
Mike Carlin Editor
Jim Shooter Editor-In-Chief
I had this signed by Geof Isherwood at the Tampa Bay Comic Con on August 24, 2013! Now it's an OAK!!!
STORY TITLE: The Human Touch
Summary:
The Ace of Clubs is having trouble keeping a regularly nightly singer due to the fact that the costumed criminal Tatterdemalion keeps appearing & warning the women against performing & making them all quit.
When Alison Blaire goes there to apply for the job, her assumed alias is seen right through by the clubs owner Rick Conti. Conti however, is interested in the added business of having a mutant performer. Alison is disgusted at first, telling Conti that she is a musician, not a freak-show.
Conti convinces her to take the job because he is desperate to find a replacement singer, and will hire her if she can wow him with her audition. With Julia Walker, the clubs pianist playing the piano Alison does just that with her amazing vocals and Conti hires her on the spot. When Conti offers her money to buy some new outfits, Alison declines telling him that she has a policy of only accepting money that she has earned.
Leaving the club she notices an old poster advertising Julia as the clubs main singing act, and realizes that Julia Walker was the famous actress of the same name and wonders what happened to her career.
She is picked up by her friend Janet, who she is now living with, and while the two are waiting at a red light, Tatterdemalion secretly pops out of a manhole and uses his acid secreting gloves to compromise the tires of Janet's car. This causes them to burst as they are driving on and they get into an accident.
As Janet goes to get help, Alison is grabbed from behind and knocked out by Tatterdemalion, who takes her down into the sewers where he threatens her not to perform at the Ace of Clubs.
Dazzler flees Tatterdemalion and his burning touch, however the deranged criminal has the advantage over her as he knows the sewers well and she does not. Alison has a big break when she manages to find an exit just as a city worker is coming down to work in the sewers.
Rising out of the manhole, she finds that tow truck drivers have come for Janet's car. Reunited with Janet, Dazzler tells her what happened unaware that Tatterdemalion is watching them from behind bushes.
While out shopping the next day Alison runs into Julia & they go have coffee together. There she tells Alison about how her career ended. She was dating fellow actor Michael Wyatt who wanted to make it big but wasn't popular enough & got rejected from many roles.
Michael later became sour of Hollywood and left for Las Vegas to open a casino. This venture failed, and Julia never heard from Michael again. Before leaving, Michael warned her that Hollywood would chew her up and spit her out.
Not listening to him at the time, Julia had later grown to realize that he was right when her own career ended. After telling her story Julia leaves, and Alison vows to not let anything ruin her career not even Tatterdemalion.
That night, Alison performs at the club to a packed audience and with Julia playing the piano. Tatterdemalion attacks the club, however when he sees Julia -- and recognizes her -- he shamefully flees the scene with Dazzler in pursuit.
Alison easily defeats Tatterdemalion & unmasks him. She recognizes him as Michael Wyatt. She then takes the confused criminal to Julia and the two have a tearful reunion, Alison leaves them to their privacy.
The next day at her apartment, Alison explains her night to Janet and laments over the fact that she was attacked again, Janet tells her to keep her head up and that someday things will get better for the mutant singer.
PERSONAL COMMENTS:
The identity of the villain in this issue was easily predicted before he was actually revealed.
When Tatterdemalion burned through the tires all I could think was, "Now that's what I call Burning Rubber!". Oh, c'mon, it was a little funny.
Alison may want a strictly singing career but these constant attacks are beginning to show that it's just not going to be possible.
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Go ahead and dive in... or up... or whatever.
Published: 9/68
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Casper's Ghostland 65 |
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A wee bit too much of the bubbly, huh?
Published: 3/72
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